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Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today welcomed Vice President Kamala Harris to Chicago to announce $144 million in federal...

Voters headed to the polls across Illinois to make sure their voices were heard in several local elections. The polls closed late Tuesday night...

Chicago - Surrounded by a broad coalition of community members, colleagues, and friends Toni Preckwinkle kicked off her campaign for Mayor at the Chicago...

    Last week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel held a press conference to announce that he will not seek re-election in the 2019 Mayoral Race. The...

    Over the last week, the world has been, again, discussing Chicago's perceived violence problem. This same excitement and attention around my city's' hyped-up wild-wild...

Mayoral candidate Dorothy Brown kicked off her Near South Side “Listening Tour” with a walk in the Chinatown neighborhood of Armour Square before meeting...

After two years ( since 2014) of going back and forth with Chicago's  Friends of the Park, the  "Star Wars" creator George Lucas walked away...

When National Action Network (NAN) and I first responded to requests from Eric Garner's family and then to Michael Brown's family as they fought...

WASHINGTON -- New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Sunday that tensions between Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police department aren't likely...

*Ask Bill de Blasio what he thinks of the media in his home town and chances are the answer may include some unkind words. According to reports, the New York mayor is blaming the New York media for the ouster of Rachel Noerdlinger, one of his top advisors. Noerdlinger’s dismissal came amid a summer filled […]